Stream Screens to SimFly Pad

Many panels in SimFly Pad include screen streaming functionality. For example, in the A320 panel, you can stream the PFD, ND, UPPER ECAM, and LOWER ECAM simultaneously.

Steps

1. On the Cockpit page of SimFly Pad, click “Connect” in the upper left corner. Select the screen you want to stream and click the “Connect” button in the middle of the screen. When the screen prompts “Waiting for the window to be popup,” proceed to the next step.

2. After the SimFlyPad screen prompts “Waiting for the window to pop up” go to the MSFS game. While holding down the right ALT key, move your mouse over the screen you want to stream and click the left mouse button. (When you move the mouse over, you will notice that your mouse icon changes to a magnifying glass icon.)

3. After clicking the left mouse button, the corresponding game screen will briefly appear as a pop-up window. Wait a moment, and SimFlyPad will automatically hide this window and start transmitting the image data.

Common Issues

[MSFS] Cannot pop out the window

When press the right ALT key and move the mouse over the corresponding screen, the mouse icon does not change.

This may be because you have accidentally changed the binding of the right ALT key. You can go to the Control Settings in MSFS, search for “NEW UI WINDOW MODE,” and rebind it.

Error "Please add a virtual monitor first"

This is because you are attempting to stream a screen that supports touch controls, such as the B787’s MFD or the A320’s EFB. Before streaming these screens, you need to add a virtual monitor in SimFlyLinker. You can follow these steps:

1. Relaunch SimFlyLinker as an administrator, go to the Tools page, and click Install to install the Virtual Monitor driver.

2. Click the Add button below to add a virtual monitor.

3. (Optional) Open This PC and go to Display Settings to ensure that the newly added virtual monitor’s resolution is set to 1920x1080 with a 100% scaling ratio, as shown in the image below.

After streaming, the screen immediately displays “unstable network” (iOS) or “FPS is too low!” (Android).

By default, the streaming window is hidden off-screen to reduce interference. However, on a small number of PCs, when these screens are hidden, they no longer render images, resulting in the inability to obtain image data during streaming. For these users, you can adjust the popup window's hiding strategy in SimFlyLinker according to the diagram below:

1. Hidden by default.

2. Move the popup window to a virtual monitor. (Note: This method requires you to first add a virtual monitor on the Tools page of SimFlyLinker.)

3. Do not hide.

After switching the option to 2 or 3, the problem should be resolved. If it still persists, please contact us and provide your graphics card information and system details (graphics card model, driver version, system version).

“Unstable network” appears after 1-3 minutes of streaming.

Unlike the previous issue, this problem occurs after 1-3 minutes of streaming.

We have received feedback from a very small number of users experiencing this issue. Their final solution was to replace the 4 memory sticks they were using (4x16GB) with 2 memory sticks, which resolved the problem.

[Android] After flying for a while, the streaming FPS drops.

We have received a few user reports about this issue, but the cause is not yet fully understood. If you encounter this problem, you can click on the corresponding screen, then click the Disconnect icon in the top-right corner to stop the current streaming session. After that, simply click Connect again to reconnect.

Streaming image stuttering or high latency 🐢

For iOS and Android versions, due to technical reasons, their streaming strategies differ.

On the iOS platform, streaming does not compress the image, which results in higher bandwidth requirements (e.g., streaming a single G1000 screen requires approximately 50Mb of bandwidth). Therefore, we strongly recommend connecting your SimFly Pad device to a 5G wireless network. For reference, the theoretical maximum bandwidth of a 5G signal is 1300Mb.

On the Android platform, the streamed image is compressed, so the network requirements are lower. However, since the compression is performed on the PC side, it consumes some CPU resources.

Regardless of the platform, we strongly recommend that you connect your SimFly Pad device to a 5G Wi-Fi signal. Compared to a 2.4G wireless signal, 5G offers lower latency and a more reliable network connection.